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Name a strategy board game

October 29, 2026 · Daily Dive #106

Explore 8,049 recorded answers and their points for question 3 on October 29, 2026.

Dated record7 questions · 16,727 recorded answers

8,049 recorded names on October 29, 2026, 7,879 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Cast your net over the hobby market rather than the toy aisle: the deepest scoring pools sit in specialist catalogues of abstract designs, historical simulations and long numbered series. Any published board or tabletop game whose rules reward planning and decisions counts, whether abstract, card-driven or simulation; role-playing games, video games and luck-only party games do not.

8,049 recorded answers7,879 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut7,87885 pts
  • Rare14460 pts
  • Schooler2030 pts
  • Plankton610 pts
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Recorded answers

8,049 recorded answers

How to approach it

Treat this as a memory-and-ranking exercise rather than a definitions test. First, list every tabletop design you can genuinely describe, from family staples and abstract classics to card-driven conflicts and economic simulations, because breadth sets your ceiling. Then sort the list by how many people worldwide could name the same title; the crowd-pleasers everyone remembers are the ones other respondents will also submit, so they pay least. Push toward items you know only from a specialist catalogue, a convention programme or a single play: regional editions, tiny print runs, series entries numbered in the dozens. Finally, test each entry against the definition, since a title without real strategic choice will not count, and copy the name exactly as the source spells it.

Get a hint

Nearly every published design qualifies, so the work is one of memory: sweep every shelf, club night and convention you have ever seen and note the titles that made you plan several moves ahead.

A little more

Move past mass-market shelves into specialist catalogues: small-press runs, imported editions, long-running series with dozens of numbered instalments and historical simulations reward the deepest memory.

One step further

The rarest picks live in the deep long tail: entries known only from hobby databases, many carrying a year and a colon in the title, odd punctuation at the front or a sparse abstract rule set.

Reveal answers 8,049
  • The 20th MaineDeep Cut85points
  • The 7th CitadelDeep Cut85points
  • The 7th ContinentDeep Cut85points
  • The A.R.T. ProjectDeep Cut85points
  • The Adventures of Robin HoodDeep Cut85points
  • The African CampaignDeep Cut85points
  • The AgentsDeep Cut85points
  • The AlamoDeep Cut85points
  • The Alamo: Victory in DeathDeep Cut85points
  • The American Civil War: 1861–1865Deep Cut85points
  • The American Revolution: 1775–1783Deep Cut85points
  • The AnarchyDeep Cut85points
  • The Ancient WorldDeep Cut85points
  • The Arab-Israeli WarsDeep Cut85points
  • The ArcticDeep Cut85points
  • The Ardennes OffensiveDeep Cut85points
  • The Ares ProjectDeep Cut85points
  • The Ark of the Covenant (board game)Deep Cut85points
  • The ArrivalDeep Cut85points
  • The Art of SiegeDeep Cut85points
  • The Art of WarDeep Cut85points
  • The Artemis ProjectDeep Cut85points
  • The Awful Green Things from Outer SpaceDeep Cut85points
  • The Aztec MarketDeep Cut85points
  • The BanishingDeep Cut85points
  • The Barracks EmperorsDeep Cut85points
  • The Baton Races of YazDeep Cut85points
  • The Battle for JerusalemDeep Cut85points
  • The Battle for Jerusalem 1967Deep Cut85points
  • The Battle for MadridDeep Cut85points
  • The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon in Russia 1812Deep Cut85points
  • The Battle of BritainDeep Cut85points
  • The Battle of DresdenDeep Cut85points
  • The Battle of Five ArmiesDeep Cut85points
  • The Battle of FontenoyDeep Cut85points
  • The Battle of Helm's DeepDeep Cut85points
  • The Battle of LobositzDeep Cut85points
  • The Battle of NationsDeep Cut85points
  • The Battle of SaratogaDeep Cut85points
  • The Battle of the AlmaDeep Cut85points
  • The Battle of VersaillesDeep Cut85points
  • The Battles of Bull RunDeep Cut85points
  • The Battles of WaterlooDeep Cut85points
  • The Big Book of MadnessDeep Cut85points
  • The Big Red OneDeep Cut85points
  • The Binding of Isaac: Four SoulsDeep Cut85points
  • The Black Prince: The Battle of NavarreteDeep Cut85points
  • The Bloody InnDeep Cut85points
  • The Blue LionDeep Cut85points
  • The BoardGameGeek GameDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

Almost the entire field scored: of 7,473 recorded answers, 7,459 cleared sixty points, so the puzzle rewarded breadth of memory rather than luck. The single hundred-point entry, Rithmomachia, is a medieval arithmetic game that only a specialist would reach for, and it shows how far a genuinely obscure name can climb. The eighty-five-point band is dominated by hobby-catalogue depth: railway-economics titles such as 1830: Railways & Robber Barons, 1846: The Race for the Midwest and 18Chesapeake, alongside historical simulations like 1776 and 1812: The Invasion of Canada, all scored 85. The sixty-point tier held two hundred and twenty-four answers, recognisable designs that many respondents could name, which is precisely why they paid less. The pattern is blunt: the more players who can produce the same title, the smaller the reward, so the best move is the most specific published design you can honestly defend as a strategy game.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 29 Oct, 08:25 UTC

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